Naruto glanced around, then at the two attackers. He was furious. He ran forward, creating a shadow clone, and started off with basic taijutsu for attacks.

"Sakura, protect Tazuna!" shouted Sasuke, following his teammate into battle.

The chunin however, were faster than Naruto and threw their chains at him. Unaware of the poison dripping off the chains, Naruto grabbed him, letting the blades of the mini connected shuriken blades cut his skin.

"How dare you... How are you hurt Minato and Kakashi-sensei!"

Sakura went in front of Tazuna, while Sasuke ran towards one of the brothers, grabbing his ninja wire, he slide by them, dodging a kunai while catching his foot with the wire, causing him to trip. Both of the demon brothers pulled at the chain Naruto was clenching, causing it to tear his skin. He let go, and pulled out a shuriken, throwing it at the chain, pinning it to a tree a meter behind. With Sakura protecting Tazuna and Sasuke fighting the first brother, Naruto headed off to the second who had his katana drawn.

"You brats really think you can defeat us?" spat Gozu. "We took out the jonin, what can a few genin do, huh?" The man swung his sword aiming for Naruto's gut but was block by a kunai.

Pushing the man backward, Naruto lunged at him "Ahh!" Tripping him, Gozu kicked him onto the ground and wrapped ninja wire around Naruto's neck and stepped on his stomach. Naruto smirked.

Taking out Minato's kunai, he cut the wire and dug the blade into Gozu's leg, forcing him to let out a shriek of pain. Seeing the chance Naruto jumped up, grabbing the man's sword and wrapping his arm around his neck, knocking him out from the lack of air. Dragging him to a nearby tree, Naruto took out some rope and took all of Gozu's ninja tools. Some of these include shuriken, kunai, ninja wire, and poisons to dip his blades in.

Sasuke

Meizu got up, kicking Sasuke's chest forcing him to let go. Sasuke scowled and activated his Sharingan, ready for any oncoming attacks. Meizu took out another chain meant for only one person not two- and snapped it in Sasuke's direction. Sasuke skidded backward avoiding the poisoned blade. Meizu smirked at Sasuke, sprinting forward, he jumped over Sasuke and snapped the chain downward towards Sasuke. However Sasuke's Sharingan saw this, and so he raised his arm, kunai in hand, and let the chain wrap around the blade. Sasuke pulled the kunai behind him, causing Meizu to crash towards the ground with a thud.

"Hn... I thought chunin were supposed to be stronger..."

Meizu, however, was still conscious, and slowly got back up. Sasuke backed up a few steps before running forward, jumped into the air, and kicked Meizu on the forehead while spinning in midair, sending him back onto the ground. Before he could get back up again, Sasuke threw a few kunai, catching on Meizu's clothes as a warning if he moved, there would be trouble. Meizu stiffened before stalling for a minute, giving enough time for Sasuke to bind his hands and feet, and to take away all his tools.

Sakura

Sakura looked around, barely any blood on the ground, and Naruto and Sasuke managed to take down two B-rank ninjas.

"Impressive," Sakura heard Tazuna say from behind her.

"That's Sasuke for you!"

"And what about your blond friend?"
"Who Naruto? He's just a baka," Sakura stated as she looked towards Sasuke.

"Wait a minute..." Sakura looked towards the voice. baka→bac

"What, Naruto-baka."

"If Kakashi-sensei and Minato are gone..."

Sakura's gaze softened. "Your right..."

"You two know, that for improving so much, your still complete idiots."

"Huh?"

Two figures shushined in front of Gozu and Meizu. "Good work, Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura."

Tazuna just stared at the two jonin bewildered. "So you let your students do the work?"

"Well, we were thinking of fighting them ourselves..." Minato started.

"But we wanted to see who they were after. Us ninja or someone who could cause a threat to someone else..." Finished Kakashi.

"Oh..."
"Is there something you'd like to tell us Tazuna-san? Or should we just cancel the mission and head back to Konoha?"

"Alright alright..." Tazuna started talking to a fallen log before sitting down. "A man named Gato has come to my village. We used to live in prosperity, but now all there is fear, hunger, and hopelessness. The only hope the people have is the completion of the bridge. Go back to your village if you want. Leave my daughter and grandchild to starve and see their grandfather die."

Minato sighed. "No need to exaggerate on that Tazuna-san."

"Wait a minute... Gato, you mean the filthy rich marketing man?" asked Kakashi.

"That's him."
"Why would he do that?" spoke Sakura, joining the conversation as she settled on the ground. He feet were tired from standing anyway.

"Gato has two sides... One side he's this famous business man that's kind and jolly. But to us who have known him, he's rotten on the inside. He gambles and will steal money from those who need it, uses it to gamble, and hire guards and shinobi to protect him and threaten and kill those who try to stand up to him. All he cares about is his wealth."

Naruto folded his arms and Sasuke thought about how his brother Itachi only cared for power.

"There's no way we're going back and leaving those people like that right?"

"I guess there's no escaping it. Someone has to do it," frowned Sasuke.

"Definitely not!"

Minato and Kakashi sighed. "Looks like we're outvoted, not that we were going to say no anyway."
"Alright lets go'tte'bayo!"

Getting up, Tazuna led the way once again heading to a lake.

Minato

"Hey Naru," Minato spoke in a whisper. "You seemed pretty mad in that battle, what was that about?"

Naruto didn't answer. In response he just faced the other way and pouted, ignoring Minato completely.

"He's still mad at you sensei?"

"Yep."

"He'll warm up. I think he already has anyway."

"Yeah right!" shouted Naruto. "There is no way I am gonna forgive him! Not ever!"

"Sure sure."

"Shut it Kakashi-sensei."

Sasuke smirked at Naruto's response, before looking at Sakura who was already responding. Turning around, Sakura stomped towards Naruto and swatted him upside the head.

"Show some respect to Kakashi-sensei!"

"Gomen'nasai Sakura-chan..."

"You better be!"

"Maybe I should try that next time."

"Itai!" responded Naruto.

Tazuna

"We're here." Kakashi looked towards the lake, a man was waiting there on a boat. Mist covered the majority of the lake, perfect cover to not be noticed by Gato or any of his Guards.

Climbing on the boat, Tazuna settled towards the back, and took out a sake bottle from his bag, along with some money to pay the boat owner.

"I'm keeping the engine off."

"Might as well."

The waves of the lake lapped the side of the boat, occasionally splashing one of the ninja or Tazuna. The mist was thick, and from the looks of Naruto, Tazuna could tell that Naruto may have been wondering if one could really cut fog with a knife, and was tempted to try it with his kunai. There was no sun shining through the clouds above, and even if there was, Tazuna highly doubted that its rays would make it past the fog.

Silence. That's all there was for the past two hours, occasionally a creek from the boat, or the splish-splosh from the waves. Silence. And that how it would continue so they would make it to land. Or at least one would hope for. But that hope did not last.

The bridge finally came into view, and to team sevens amazement, it was much larger than any bridge they had ever seen before.

"That thing is huge!"

"You got that right Naruto-baka!"

"H-hey quiet or we may be noticed from anyone on the bridge!"

"Gomen, sir."

"Yesh. I thought Ninja were trained to be silent."

-Hour later-

Team Seven had finally reached the shore of the land of waves and gotten off the boat.

"It's only about an hour walk from my place from here, we can make it before dinner."

"Sweet, free food!" (A/N: This totally reminds me of someone I know who is reading this...)

Tazuna chuckled.

Naruto

Hearing a twig break, Naruto drew a kunai, throwing it towards the nearby sound.

"There's nothing there-baka!"

Naruto ignored Sakura and walked to where he threw the kunai to find a stunned rabbit. Sakura and the others soon followed to see what was there.

"You could have killed it!"

"By the looks of it, Sakura... This rabbit was raised inside to be killed. As a substitution."

"Duck!"

Sakura, hearing the warning, ducked in response, seeing a giant sword fly above them, slamming into a tree.

"Well, well, well... Copy Ninja Kakashi... we finally meet."

Author-chan: Oh don't you all just love cliff hangers...

Naruto: No not really.

Author-chan: No one asked you.

Naruto: By the way... Who is the person you said that reminded you of me?

Author-chan: x glares x another way around.

Naruto: Aw. Then how do I remind you of your friend? x makes an innocent grin x

Author-chan: None of your business. Buuuut if you really want to know, you both love food-especially ramen, frogs, and well, you both bakas.

Naruto: Can I meet him?

Author-chan: No.

Naruto: Please!

Author-chan: I said no.

Naruto: Pretty please with a Naruto fish cake on top?

Author-chan: Naruto you're breaking the fourth wall.

Naruto: Okay okay. Sayonara Author-chan!

Author-chan: Just leave already so I can go back to making the story.

Naruto: x pouts x Fine fine. x Shushins away x

Author-chan: Thank you.

Finally, I'm able to update! I know guys these past chapters are short but it's because I suck at battle scenes I'm sorry! Hopefully, soon they will be longer during the wave arch! Thank you for the patience, my beautiful readers!

But...:

Guys I'm reallllyyyy sorry but I am putting all my stories on pause... I'm a Christian, and my boyfriend, or now my ex... Is also one and I felt that God didn't want us together and I feel so upset right now... My ex would read my story Meeting Yondaime so now I can't even write without crying right now I feel so lost... Well broken, I don't know the words 😭😭😭😭😢😱😰😔 I don't know when I'll get over it so I'm so sorry guys! It won't be as long as the other time out. I promise... And also, the computer won't cooperate so using my mom's computer.